1. Mission fulfillment: How do we know?
Board of Trustees Meeting
Wed. October 9, 2013

2. Goals for today
Timeline Progress on recommendations Indicator examples Mission fulfillment discussion Provide an opportunity for feedback

3. Timeline May 30th – receive report from NWCCU
Dec. Board meeting – update
March 3rd – Year three report due
Today
Nov. 30th – finalize indicators, objectives, core themes, mission fulfillment definition
Dec. 31st – finish draft of report
March – virtual visit by NWCCU

4. NWCCU Recommendations
Report
Recommendations
Year 1 (spring 2012)
1. Articulate mission fulfillment
2. Identify measurable indicators
Ad hoc (fall 2012)
1. Complete development of outcomes and begin to assess outcomes

5. Indicators Year 1 report Year 3 report
Course completion: Faculty and administrators apply course completion data to improve programs and services

6. Indicators Year 1 report Year 3 report
Course completion: Faculty and administrators apply course completion data to improve programs and services
Course completion: The average successful completion rate for college-level courses exceeds ___%

7. Indicators Year 1 report Year 3 report
Course completion: Faculty and administrators apply course completion data to improve programs and services
Course completion: The average successful completion rate for college-level courses exceeds ___%
Retention: Faculty and administrators apply retention data to improve programs and services

8. Indicators Year 1 report Year 3 report
Course completion: Faculty and administrators apply course completion data to improve programs and services
Course completion: The average successful completion rate for college-level courses exceeds ___%
Retention: Faculty and administrators apply retention data to improve programs and services
Retention: The one-year retention (persistence) rate for academic-transfer students exceeds ___%

9. Indicators Year 1 report Year 3 report
Course completion: Faculty and administrators apply course completion data to improve programs and services
Course completion: The average successful completion rate for college-level courses exceeds ___%
Retention: Faculty and administrators apply retention data to improve programs and services
Graduation: Faculty and administrators apply graduation data to improve programs and services
Retention: The one-year retention (persistence) rate for academic-transfer students exceeds ___%

10. Indicators Year 1 report Year 3 report
Course completion: Faculty and administrators apply course completion data to improve programs and services
Course completion: The average successful completion rate for college-level courses exceeds ___%
Retention: Faculty and administrators apply retention data to improve programs and services
Graduation: Faculty and administrators apply graduation data to improve programs and services
Retention: The one-year retention (persistence) rate for academic-transfer students exceeds ___%
Graduation: The three-year graduation rate for academic-transfer students exceeds ___%

11. Academic progress: Students are retained in and complete degrees and certificates (2012-13)
For one indicator (CCR), we exceeded the target; for 2 indicators our actual figures are between our target and minimum acceptable thresholds; and for 1 indicator our actual 3-year grad rate is lower than the minimum. So what we are considering doing is rolling up the indicators and defining mission fulfillment at the objective level. So for this objective, “acad. progress”, on a green-yellow-red scale we’ve given ourselves a yellow.
5-year graduation rate is 24%.
Interpretation: In , WCC’s overall course completion rate was 79% (which exceeded WCC’s target of 78%).
Note: The target and minimum values are hypothetical.

12. Mission fulfillment Finalize core themes.
Finalize objectives for each core theme.
The status of the indicators for each objective determines if the objective is satisfied.
Satisfaction of at least ___% of objectives defines mission fulfillment.

13. Standard Two – Resources and Capacity
Consists of 7 elements and 85 criteria. For each criteria, we consider two questions:
Does Whatcom meet the standard defined by the Commission?
If yes, provide the evidence, and if no, explain our plan to become fully compliant.

14. Questions?